Lake
Lake Malawi
The 3rd deepest of the 204 lakes measured in this atlas.
maximum depth 704 m · 3rd/204
Wikidata · ranks computed across the features of the same kind in this atlas that carry the measurement
- Surface area
- 29,600 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one. Computed from the Natural Earth outline: ≈ 29,000 km².
- Maximum depth
- 704 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Elevation
- 474 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Length
- 570 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Width
- 75 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Drainage basin
- 6,593 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Wikidata
- Q5532
Among the world's lakes
Each line is every one of the lakes in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.
- Surface area29,600 km²8th of 319 · median 536 km²
- Maximum depth704 m3rd of 204 · median 42 m
- Elevation474 m97th of 333 · median 278 m
- Length570 km4th of 255 · median 66 km
- Width75 km22nd of 221 · median 20 km
- Drainage basin6,593 km²100th of 162 · median 12,298 km²
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